I am quite happily using a patched version of the modules together with the Perl/Tk chatterbox client, and I would like to see them continued (or at least I would like a replacement that is a bit cleaner).

By the way: there is some other part you missed in your changes, and that converting the documentation to POD, including all the usual parts that we expect from perl module documentation: NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION etc etc.

-- 
Joost       downtime n. The period during which a system
            is error-free and immune from user input.
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